Reblogged this on Beastrabban’s Weblog and commented:
Tom Magenta in the comments makes the good point about the double standards of the media. When Ed Miliband was shown eating a bacon sandwich ‘weirdly’ in a café, it was all over the news. When Cameron eats a hot dog with a knife and fork, they’re strangely silent. And this is the media that was all too ready to report how upper class and out of touch with Britain’s workers Peter Mandelson was when it was reported that Mandelson had mistaken the mushy peas in his local Hartlepool chippie for avocado dip.

As for eating hot dogs with a knife and fork, this is about the same as ironing your jeans so you can get a nice crease in them, or sewing nametags into ship issue condoms (joke copyright Red Dwarf). It’s not just IDS who is Rimmer from Red Dwarf. They all are. Gaspachio soup!

Political savvy should not amount to being able to master eating a bacon sandwich. OK, Millipede couldn’t master it, and Nigel Farrago tried to score political points by assuming that he could eat one better than Millipede, but he was being watched at the time by the dreaded & intrepid Michael Crick, who commented that Farrago should think more when downing bacon about losing the Muslim vote… and the Jewish vote… but Farrago carried on eating and smiling and gorging as if he knew he’d lost the Muslim and Jewish votes anyway…..

You’re right in saying that how they look, when eating or in general is irrelevant. It’s right also to point out the hypocrisy of the mainstream media, considering the feeding frenzy(no pun intended) over the Miliband bacon sarnie affair. However, it is very telling, how the MsM choose to ignore or highlight such meaningless trivia, rather than confronting the very real situations faced by people trying to survive the damage caused by austerity. MsM brainstorming session: “Estimated ten thousand dead, as a direct or indirect result of sanctions. Starvation, suicide and kids dumpster diving for waste food. But no, let’s not focus on any of the depressing realities of modern life, let’s focus on pointless shit about nothing important, then we won’t have to ask any awkward questions and risk offending the people who could be in a position to make life difficult for us.”